Founded by Stephen de Villiers, an award-winning filmmaker with a passion for service and forging life-long client relationships, Beyond Content is an end-to-end production company and content agency. In 2017 Sam Matthews, a post-production specialist and long-term creative collaborator joined forces with Stephen and together they have continued their trajectory into the broadcast and long-form content arena, all while forging a reputation for creative excellence and world-class service. In 2020, Chloe Gardner, an industry leader in arts management and creative producing joined as partner, and together they are leading the Beyond team into a promising future both as a world-class creative agency and production company with a diverse and market-ready slate of long-form projects.

Our core team comprises more than 30 years’ experience and boasts a range of skills and expertise across a suite of filmmaking specialities including drama, documentary, TV production, VFX, animation, and high-end colour grading. In addition, we work with some of Australia’s top creatives to produce long-form, broadcast and commercial film and video content in Australia and beyond.

The last 18 months have seen our company expand, and we’re deeply grateful for the relationships we’ve fostered with our clients who entrust us with their brands, their messaging and their creative. We’ve also continued to make strides in long-form work, with Sam writing and directing a documentary series for ABC at the end of 2017, and Stephen producing three new films in 2017 and directing a documentary for SBS/NITV in 2018.

We now have one feature documentary, funded and in production and a feature film with funding from the private sector in active development.

We’ve filmed all over the world on every kind of budget, and have collectively produced or contributed to over 500 films of all shapes and sizes. Today we continue to dig deep, think big and push ourselves to be our best. With every project, we adopt a posture of curiosity and empathy, which unlocks the power and full potential of the stories we bring to screens of all shapes and sizes.

We’re in the business of shaping ideas and focussing emotion so that we can craft screen stories that move audiences. But we’re also in the business of keeping things fun, and enjoying the ride. Mostly we love meeting new people and sharing stories, so we’d love you to get in touch.We now have one feature documentary, funded and in production, a TV series pre-sold to the ABC, a feature film with funding from the private sector in active development, and the option on a children’s book series, with the first book being adapted as a feature film.

We’ve filmed all over the world on every kind of budget, and have collectively produced or serviced over 1000 films of all shapes and sizes. Today we continue to dig deep, think big and push ourselves to be our best. With every project, we adopt a posture of curiosity and empathy, which unlocks the power and full potential of the stories we bring to screens of all shapes and sizes.

We’re in the business of shaping ideas and focussing emotion so that we can craft screen stories that move audiences. But we’re also in the business of keeping things fun, and enjoying the ride. Mostly we love meeting new people and sharing stories, so we’d love you to get in touch.